The Call for Ideas grant awards draw from a $500,000 fund from the Department of Commerce. The money is given to groups with projects that directly improve the city’s startup community. This round had a common theme: Integrating students and universities with startups.

Besides PennApps Fellows, Mayor Michael Nutter, at a ribbon cutting ceremony for SevOne’s new Center City office, also named four additional organizations that received awards:

Philadelphia Fashion Incubator will get $25,000 to create a series of monthly seminars, panels and interactive workshops focused on the fashion business for the design community.

Zivtech Developer Boot Camp will get $24,000 to teach a six-week developer program to a class of 30.

Technical.ly/ Philly Startup Leaders will get $25,000 to create and execute a series of eight workshops to connect the Philadelphia tech community to students and universities.

Call for Ideas is part of Startup PHL’s mission to fire up Philadelphia’s innovators. The first round of funding was announced last spring, where companies like Startup Corps, PhillyCORE Leaders and the Enterprise Center, among others, received awards.

Rich Sedmak, the executive director for the 4-year-old Startup Corps, which is a youth entrepreneurship program, said the $20,000 his company received last year has helped develop curriculum and content that’s “allowed us to increase our capacity and work with more kids.”

Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger said there should be about three more rounds of funding distributed throughout the next two years.

Startup PHL, which launched last year, also has secured a $6 million seed fund, thanks to a partnership between PIDC and First Round Capital.

Real Food Works nabbed a reported $200,000 award for the first seed fund grant this past October. Rebecca Lopez Kriss, the manager of entrepreneurial investment for the city, said the next award-winner has been secured, and should be announced soon.

When asked why it’s taking the city so long to get this $6 million (criticized by some as not being much to work with) into entrepreneurs’ pockets, Greenberger said that’s a better question for First Round Capital, which is managing the fund. But, if he could take a guess, he said the folks at First Round Capital are probably taking extra caution considering public money is involved.